Sacred Poetry from Around the World

Says Abu Sa'id Ibn Abi'l-Khayr:These souls know one another by smell, like horses.

This is how I listen now: leaning in to hear a resonance that swells into the soundless.This is how I look now: with eyes wide for a line that curves in to touch the infinite.This is how I speak now: knowing that every word tells of ignorance and is relieved only by silence.This is how I feel: by the heft of unnameable currents dispersing into weightlessness.

And for all the seismic shifts, there is no difference I can speak of;For all the geological upheavals, the rivers are still slow through the low hills.

Nothing but a solitary sky and a scent that will not leave my nostrils.